Jakob Rosenhain

Jacob Rosenhain (Jacob, Jacques) ( born December 2, 1813 in Mannheim, † March 21, 1894 in Baden -Baden ) was a German - Jewish pianist and composer. He is the brother of the pianist Eduard Rosenhain.

Life

The banker 's son Jacob Rosenhain received his musical training on the piano in Mannheim at James Smith and as a composer with Jan Václav Kalivoda and Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee in Frankfurt am Main.

Already the age of eleven he had his first public appearances. In 1830 he was able to occur in the Germany trip of the famous violinist Niccolò Paganini as a virtuoso in a concert. He wrote in 1834 the opera The visit to the madhouse ( libretto by Johann Gottlieb Rhode ), which premiered on December 29, 1834 in Frankfurt. Rosenhain went on concert tours through Germany in 1837 and gave a guest performance as a soloist in the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which left a lasting impression. In Frankfurt, he became a member of the Masonic Lodge " to the rising dawn ."

After the death of Johann Nepomuk Hummel in 1837 Rosenhain could take up the position of Kapellmeister in Weimar, but moved to Paris. There he gave chamber concerts and befriended, among others, with Luigi Cherubini and Gioachino Rossini. Cherubini and Rossini also encouraged him together with Hector Berlioz explicitly representing the German music. Rosenhain came for concerts continue to Germany. He played on 26 September 1839 in a concert of many with his friend Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy self-composed piano pieces, which - like his game - met with great praise from contemporary critics: " Rosenhain making music for music's sake ."

As lost applies Rose grove second opera " Liswenna " (1835 ), which he was in Paris in " Le Démon de la nuit ( Etienne Arago ) " reworked and premiered there in the same year at the Paris Opera in 1851. In 1843 he worked with Johann Baptist Cramer on a piano school. He was known and respected among his contemporaries. So, for example, opened the 15 -year-old Johannes Brahms on September 21, 1848 his first concert with a composition of Rosenhain ( Adagio and Rondo from the A major Concerto ). The political events of 1870 brought Rosenhain to leave Paris and move to Baden -Baden, where he lived until his death.

Works

• The visit to the Madhouse (1834 )
• Liswenna (1835 )
• Le Démon de la Nuit ( 1851)
• Volage et Jaloux (1863 )

• Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op 42
• Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op 43 (possible first performance in 1846 played by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig)
• Symphony No. 3 " In the Spring", Op 61

Furthermore Rosenhain wrote numerous piano works and songs.